The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
Seth GodinA business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.
Seth GodinWhere do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Seth GodinCanoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
Seth Godin